The Core Pathway

The Core Teams (east and west) work with individuals who are aged between 18 and 65 and who have moderate to severe mental health needs and who need support from secondary mental health services. The service users we work with live within the community and we cover central Wakefield and the immediate vicinity. The team offers a multiprofessional approach, which means that different health and social care professionals with different skills and ideas work together to offer different types of support, treatments and approaches to the care offered. The individual under the care of the service will have an allocated lead healthcare professional, who has overall responsibility for the plan of care whilst under the service.

Call us

Opening times / out of hours opening

Contact details

01924 316 921

Age range / who can access the service

Adults who are aged between 18 and 65

Key support offer

Treatment.
Stabilisation.
Time limited and evidenced based interventions.
Management and treatment of longer-term mental health conditions, such as medication administration.
Outpatient clinics with a psychiatrist
Psychological therapies
Recovery based approaches
Work towards discharge to primary care services

What we don't offer

Crisis response or crisis intervention
General support
Routine medical follow up and stable medication regimes
Support for temporary life stressors.
Anger management support
Relationship difficulties and bereavement support, where the individual does not have a need which requires support from mental health services.
Assessments for court.
A service when other services may be able to offer more appropriate help and support to meet your individual needs

Category	Notes	Yes / No
Self Help	including guided self-help e.g. recovery college.	no
Community Based	GP practices, primary care team, live well social prescribing, Voluntary and community sector support.	no
Professional Referral	further info about local clinical teams, accessed by professional referral (SPA, info on CORE AND ENHANCED, IHBT MH Teams).	yes

Accessibility information for service

Language, hearing, mobility, sight, text or email communication

Waiting times / triage timescales

The waiting time within core team west depends on the support and treatment you require. After we have received a referral for you, a letter is sent out to you with an initial appointment. This appointment may be with a Psychiatrist, Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker and you may be waiting for up to 8 weeks for this. If you have been referred for psychological therapies, you will receive a letter asking you to contact the service to arrange an assessment appointment. We aim to offer an assessment appointment as soon as possible; however, you may be waiting up to 18 weeks for an initial assessment appointment for psychological therapies. You can expect to wait in excess of 18 months for psychological treatment, once you have been assessed for this.

How to access - self or professional referral

We only accept referrals from other professionals.

Accessment process

After we have accepted a referral into the core team, we work with the individual to understand their mental health needs, their goals for recovery and to look at how the service can best support them. We will then develop a care plan which will include the identified needs and what their personal goals for their mental health are, working with the individual in beginning their recovery, reaching set goals, and to move towards discharge from mental health services.

Signposting to services that can offer support if this service can't

If we are unable to offer you support, we will discuss this with you and work with you to identify what other services may be helpful in meeting your needs. We often encourage you to make referrals to these services independently, however you will be provided with the necessary information to support you in doing so.